Bloom, Breathe, And Begin Again - Floral & Art Workshop
Date and Time
A one-of-a-kind intimate gathering near Brno
Date: December 7, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
What can you expect
Creating everlasting flower arrangement
You will create a beautiful everlasting arrangement with gentle and encouraging guidance from Klára. We will learn to design using a simple yet effective sustainable technique that you can later use at home for your own projects and arrangements. There will be a variety of ceramic vessels to pick from so you can create a design that truly fits your home.
Indulging yourself into expressive drawing
We will use our flower arrangements as a starting point for the expressive drawing part of our workshop which will guide us inward. Under the experienced and gentle guidance of Valentine we will set off on a journey, utilizing the principles of art therapy, to go within, connect, open…
Safe space
This intimate gathering is a safe space for expressing yourselves, a judgement free zone, for letting your creativity free. You do not need any floristry or artistry experience. We will let go of expectations and rules. Both Valentine and Klára strongly believe in learning through positive experience and an empathetic approach. They provide supportive tools to create and learn but without the stress and rigid rules. We will create and learn and leave with something tangible and intangible. Let’s discover something more fulfilling now together.
Schedule
Welcome Circle Arrive, settle in with tea, coffee, and light snacks. Gentle stretching and grounding ritual.
Opening Our Inner World Guided art activity and discussion — connect to our emotions and intuition.
Floral Arrangements: Creating Space Select your vessel and design your unique arrangement with locally grown, hand-picked, and dried flowers. Space for growth and renewal.
Break Refreshments, treats, cakes.
Redefining Intention Guided visualization and quiet reflection to realign with your personal intentions.
Art Activity: Capturing a Feeling Gently prompted intuitive drawing — no art experience needed.
Discussion & Vision Casting What you wish to carry forward, next steps.
Take a mindful pause and reconnect with yourself through flowers, art, and reflection. In this immersive, sensory experience, you’ll create beauty with your hands, explore expression through art, and open space for new beginnings with mind and body movement.
— Valentine Svihalek
Klára
Klára is a wedding and event florist, educator and a lifetime learner.
She fell in love with flowers 10 years ago at the Boerma Institute where she started her training in floristry. Since then she attended numerous seminars, events and workshops both in the Czech Republic and abroad, where is both, hones her floristry skills and taking inspiration for her own classes and workshops.
Klára is an sought after wedding florist in Moravia with her 200 + weddings she prepared flowers and decorations for. She believes her calling is to bring joy and beauty to people's lives through flowers.
Valentine
Valentine Svihalek is a Belgian-American visual artist, international educator, and founder & director of Art Connect Society and SafeSpaces.Art. After the birth of her first child in a Czech village where she spoke a different language, she felt isolated. Supported by the Artist Residency in Motherhood Program, she developed an artmaking process that liberates expressive energy and builds connection.
With over 20 years of teaching, mentoring, and coaching experience, graduate studies in philosophy and teaching, literacy, and culture in San Diego, and mentorship from American multimedia artist Isadora Stowe Jackson, Valentine established a strong foundation for her creative practice. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Art Therapy at Metàfora, Barcelona.
Her work has been shown in galleries and cafés across Europe, including the Jewish Museum Prague and CA Gallery Bratislava, and she was longlisted for the Women United Art Prize. She is a member of Spilt Milk Gallery, AQ Society, Create, VA Gallery, and the Artist-Mother Network. Valentine firmly believes that the key to living well is trusting your voice and embracing your passions. Learn more about Valentine and her work here.
Important information
What is included
All materials provided
Your own floral arrangement and ceramic vessel to take home
Tea, coffee, and snacks throughout
A curated, nourishing experience led by two experts in their fields
This workshop will be primarily held in English. However, should you wish to attend and your English is limited, we are happy to make it work for you with translations into Czech.
Learn to make an everlasting flower arrangement and dive into discovering yourself with art therapy techniques
Purchase your tickets here
One-of-a kind event near Brno, arrange locally grown, hand picked and dried flowers, choose your own ceramic vessel, explore expressive drawing, reconnect with yourself through a thoughtful sensory experience. The price for this 4 hour long, intimate gathering is 3 600 Kč.
